To: Peter Panholzer, INTERNET:peterpan@monaco.mc
From: Tom Panholzer c/o Dana Lee Ling at 103126.1357@compuserve.com

Thanks for your e-mail transmission concerning my reception of your fax. As Dana Lee Ling has advised we have surfed the net and been in your site. I pulled out several things and will forward them to my father. I did not realize that my grandfather had committed suicide. I don't even know when he died or where ( I assume Washington, D.C. area), or how old he was, etc. I was the person who left the message about assisting anyone interested in the German influence in Micronesia. We have many last names of German origin; however, none are Panholzer or any of the other various spelling deviations.

The Germans are responsible for the land title system here. Because everyone here owns land, democracy and free enterprise is alive and doing well. When the Japanese took over in the early 1900s they did not change the system and since it is essentially the same as the American system, the Americans didn't change it either. I like your idea of having a Panholzer gathering at one of the inns of our namesake. I have never been to Europe, I will try to make it inside of the next five years. As for my mother's side, this is pretty confusing. I don't know the real name of my maternal great-grandfather. Apparently he killed someone in Kansas City, Missouri, and fled to St. Louis where he changed his name to Jackson.

I'm not sure who my real grandmother was, because there seems to be some evidence that my aunt was my real grandmother, but she took that secret to the grave about two years ago at the age of 99. I do know that my maternal grandmother was half Cherokee Indian. Her name was Rowena. My mother's brother was adopted, but this was kept a secret until just a couple of years ago when my aunt revealed it. Even my mother kept her age a secret for 40 or 50 years. We should have been spies. When I was in Viet Nam a soldier or Marine came up to me and looked at my name tag. He then said that he did not remember my face, but there could not be two people with my name, so he thanked me for saving his life, and walked away. I was too stunned to say anything, but I always wanted to pass that along to the Panholzer who gave such credit to our name. Maybe you could mention this on the internet. (letter ends here, abruptly. PP)